Flavorful Paleo and AIP recipes
Festival season is the most challenging when you are on a restrictive diet! The Indian Festival season just started with ‘Ganesh Chathurthi’ which celebrates the birth of Lord Ganesha. The next couple months will bring more festivals including Onam (Kerala’s harvest festival) and Diwali, the Hindu New Year. What all of these festivals have in […]
Ada is a traditional keralan food where different kinds of stuffings are stuffed inside a rice flour dough and then steamed by wrapping them in banana leaves! As a kid, I loved the ‘Adas’ with the sweet coconut fillings. Yum! I have made a sweet potato version of these sweet coconut filling dumplings which you […]
‘Mom, I don’t know about this…is it going to be good? I mean Nutella is so good! Why can’t we have just that?’ ‘Have you checked the ingredients list for Nutella? Refined Sugar is the first ingredient! And then there is skim milk too. Two ingredients that mess up your metabolism and digestion’! “Anyways, let […]
There is no escaping the heat for me. I just came back from India where the temps were hovering in the 90 s even though it had also been pouring cats and dogs most days. And then I get back to the US and it hits 90 three days in a row. And then our […]
How is your summer coming along guys? Mine seems to be rolling by in fast forward motion and I am having trouble keeping up! I just returned from spending time with family in India and although we had an awesome time, it was quite hectic since we traveled quite a bit trying to meet up […]
As soon as June sets in, I am thinking of strawberries! And getting them fresh from the local farms! Although picking had started a couple weeks ago, I have been so busy with my nutritional coaching and my speaking engagements that I had not been able to go to the farms yet. Until today that […]
I had never had Fish Pie in my life until our recent trip to London. I had never heard of it either. Our trip was pretty short – we were there for a bit less than 5 days total. But our culinary experience there during that time was phenomenal! The food scene in […]
Plantain fritters are a traditional snack of Kerala and I have posted the traditional version of Pazham Pori (as it is called in malayalam) earlier. Now of course I make the gluten free and grain free version using cassava flour. I actually prefer the texture of this version now more than the traditional version. Also I do […]
Puttu is a breakfast food that originates from the southern Indian state of Kerala. It is usually made from rice flour. But a variation of that is using kappa (which is the malayalam word for cassava) and kappa puttu is mostly made using fresh kappa (cassava) since most households in kerala have cassava plants growing […]
If you follow my blog regularly, you must surely know how much I love fish! Fish comprises of 70-80% of my protein for the week. Luckily my whole family loves fish! What about you? Do you like fish? Even if you are not a big fan of fish, I strongly suggest you try this […]
Disclaimer: The above post may contain amazon product affiliate links which mean that I get a small commission should you choose to buy using those links. However your price stays the same regardless. A big thank you to my dear friend Monica for introducing me to these crepes! Monica is originally from Brazil and last […]
This is one multi-purpose recipe and great to have it handy! For a multitude of dishes. And it’s so easy to make that I never even thought of posting this recipe before. But one of my friends recently asked me how I make this when she saw one of my ‘berrilicious’ posts on instagram. So […]
